Need some holiday decorating ideas? You might want to check out the 2008 Christmas Home Tour this weekend, featuring seven local homes and businesses decked out for Christmas.

The holiday event is 3-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7. Tickets are $5 each, with proceeds benefiting the American Cancer Society through the Carroll County Middle School Relay for Life team. Participants must present their tickets for admittance into each location.

Fiscal Court gave United Healthcare the nod to provide insurance for Carroll County employees, and employees will still have a choice between two coverage options.

The county has been considering a number of options provided by Scott Brown of Phil Brown Insurance Agency, Louisville, for the past month. The United Healthcare plan was selected because it is most cost-effective for the coverage it provides.

A fire department training exercise has led to an investigation by the state department of environmental protection.

Milton Fire Department is under investigation following a training exercise Nov. 21 that included setting fire to two barns on Liberty Road in Milton. The barns, which according to Fire Chief Ronnie Barnes contained only tobacco, were destroyed in the windstorm that struck the county last September.

Carrollton City Council will vote today on a proposed change to health insurance benefits for city employees.

Council will hold a special meeting in City Hall at noon to make up for the regular meeting, which had been scheduled for Monday. That meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum.

During its Nov. 24 meeting, Mayor Dwight Louden asked council to revisit a policy established in 2007, in which city employees were encouraged to switch from the city’s health plan to plans offered by their spouses’ employers.

In the pre-dawn hours Thursday morning, troopers from the Kentucky State Police and law-enforcement officers from Carroll and four surrounding counties converged to take 68 people – all indicted for alleged drug trafficking – off the streets.

Known as Operation Round-Up, the sting netted 49 arrests by the end of the day. Of those arrested, 19 are from Carroll County. The alleged offenders included men and women, ranging in age from 18-54: there were father-son duos, father-daughter duos and a brother-and-sister duo among them.

Dozens of suspected drug dealers had their sleep abruptly interrupted Thursday morning when they were nabbed in Operation Roundup.

The procedure varied little for officers out on the streets before 6 a.m. Nov. 13, approaching darkened houses looking for 68 people recently indicted for trafficking drugs. Teams of four surrounded each house, with one cautiously knocking on the door as the others watched for movement inside the residence. In most cases, suspects opened doors willingly, helping ensure the arrests went as smoothly as possible for all involved.